Gareth Davis and Merzbow - Broken LandscapesStephen O'Malley - Auflosung der ZeitSenyawa and Stephen O'Malley - Bima SaktiAnaal Nathrakh - EndarkenmentTestament - Titans of CreationCloudkicker - SolitudeVerval - BeeldenstormDesolate Entity - DeconstructionGaerea - Limbo
(26/100)
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 29 November 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
xp yeah it occurred to me, discounting live albums would take the Triptykon out of the running, which I don't think anybody wants to do.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 29 November 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
Or the Ahab, for that matter!
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 November 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
i haven't thought about nominating Rakka in here. on board with it
he used to play in metal bands, drums of course; it's documented his staning for all Death Metal Earache; and would anyone be surprised to spot a Beherit hoodie at one of his shows?
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Sunday, 29 November 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Live albums have always been allowed, dont recall if any of them ever get in the poll rundown.
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 30 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
You are all going to vote for Triptykon, right? 😠😠😠 Good.
― jmm, Monday, 30 November 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
I dont usually vote for live albums but we'll see.
Is everyone remembering to add their nominations to the collaborative Spotify playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3a0enQtah5VT4hADz1wdnf?si=qZiCkvMcSWa6hmqOFIcsnw
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
Triptykon's interesting in that part of what they played live was a new composition.
it feels like it was two years ago that this live album came out. when will 2020 end
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
for Deftones lovers
Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
(2/100)
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Afterbirth - Four Dimensional FleshEnslaved - UtgardHuman Impact - Human ImpactHuntsman - Mandala of FearIgorrr - Spirituality and DistortionIntronaut - Fluid Existential InversionsDarren Korb - Hades: Original Game SoundtrackLeeched - To Dull the Blades of Your AbuseThe Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | CenozoicVoidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel
― beard papa, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
People should give the Enslaved another chance. It left me cold the first couple of listens, but eventually hit me the right way. I know they're pretty much nothing like they used to be, but I don't see how someone who loves music could not at least appreciate the craft of it even if it didn't resonate emotionally. I don't even know why I gave a new Enslaved release more listens or why I'm suddenly OK with pop-oriented Enslaved, but I'm glad I did. I might even go back and check out the last ten years of releases I skipped.
Igorrr doesn't get much any love around here, but Spirituality & Distortion kicks ass. If tracks Nervous Waltz or Himalaya Massive Ritual don't do it for you, you can probably confidently say you're not a fan and move on, but if you like and haven't heard 2017's Savage Sinusoid (which I also nommed that year, and I think it received one vote in the poll) which is slightly more chaotic and unfocused but probably slightly better for it.
Darren Korb's "Hades" soundtrack is worth checking out. It's on Spotify and Bandcamp. My young daughter who is ambivalent to most hard rock/metal I play absolutely loves it. The game is outstanding as well.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
If anyone needs any help due to a bad memory then sites like RYM et al are worth posting links for
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2020/g:metal/
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2020/11/12/spoiler-here-are-decibels-top-40-albums-of-2020/
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Evangelist - Ad Mortem Festinamus
(72/100)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
via the above poster
http://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-albums-2020
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
A few more:
Arvalastra – The Key to the Shrine of PutrefactionAzarath – Saint DesecrationBlasphamagoatachrist – Bastardizing the PurityCénotaphe – Monte VeritàGolden Light – Sacred Colour of the Source of LightHerxheim – Incised ArrivalHWWAUOCH – Protest Against SanityKaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön toinen aurinkoLive Burial – Unending FutilityMahr – MaelstromMy Death Belongs to You – The World Seems to Be FadingNorrhem – KoitosOdoacer – There the Vultures Will Gather
(43/100)
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
200 Stab Wounds – Piles Of Festering DecompositionArs Magna Umbrae - ApotheosisAzath – Through a Warren of ShadowAzoth – Magnitude of ExtinctionBattle Dagorath – Abyss Horizons Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death PrevailedCarnation – Where Death LiesCemetery Filth - DominionChepang - ChattaCoffin Curse – Ceased to BeCytotoxin - NuklearthDefeated Sanity - The Sanguinary ImpetusDraghkar – At the Crossroads of InfinityEsoctrilihum – F’htansgExocrine - MaelstromExpander – Neuropunk BoostergangGlorious Depravity – Ageless ViolenceJudicator – Let There Be NothingMAUL – Deity DemiseMedium - MediumMesarthim – The Degenerate EraMesarthim – Planet NineOil Spill - AshlandsSolicitor – Spectral DevastationSpirit Adrift – Enlightened in EternityStormkeep - GaldrumThaetas – Shrines to AbsurdityTraveler – Termination ShockTZOMPANTLI - TLAMNALLIUlthar - ProvidenceUndergang - Aldrig i livetVisceral Mass – Visceral MassWake - ConfluenceWarp Chamber – Implements of ExcruciationXazraug – Unsympathetic EmpyreanXenobiotic – Mordrake
(36/100)
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Didn't know there was new Mesarthim, I'll have to check those out.
Not to campaign on the noms thread, but if you prefer the first few Elder records to the direction they took after Lore, then the Slift album is for you.
Also:Bring Me the Axe - Bring Me the Axe
(27/100)
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
new Mesarthim a clear step down
― imago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
still worth hearing idk
You guys have most of my noms already covered, but here's a few in consideration for my list that I don't see:
All Them Witches - Nothing as the IdealThe Atomic Bitchwax - ScorpioColour Haze - We AreIncantation - Sect of Vile DivinitiesKind - Mental NudgeKonvent - Puritan MasochismMolassess - Through the HollowNothing - The Great DismalPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - VisceralsValkyrie - Fear-(16)- Dream Squasher
(11/100)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Good list so far, folks.
Keep 'em coming.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
That Colour Haze is very technically a 2019 release, but I believe it only came out digitally during the week after(?) Christmas and didn't get any sort of physical distribution until March of this year - but feel free to nix it if that doesn't count.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Bandcamp says October 9, 2020. Good enough for me.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's when the US label (Ripple) finally released it here. Just thought I'd preempt any pedants about the date, ha.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
Isengard - VårjevndøgnOnirik - The Fire Cult Beyond EternityChasmdweller - Bacterial LotusBog Body / Primitive Warfare - The Gate of Grief / Undulating TormentSerration - Shrine of ConsciousnessDeiquisitor - Promo 2020Dkharmakhaoz - Proclamation ov the Black SunsCrushing the Scepter - Echoing Screams of Madness and DelusionKommand - TerrorscapeLeft Cross - Prophecy of ConquestExhumation - Eleventh FormulaeInternal Rot - Grieving BirthIfernach - WaqanRat King - Vicious InhumanityBurning Palace - Hollow-S- - Zabijanie czasu ICorpse Pile - Corpse Pile DemoEncirclement - Oscuridad PerdicionEvulse - Pustulant SpawnPharmacist - Medical Renditions of Grinding DecompositionSeep - Souvenirs of a NecrosadistVisceral Mass - Visceral MassGutless / Mortal Wound - Gutless / Mortal WoundTsap - Flickering Lyghte in CampsiteDeiquisitor - Religiously Endorsed MasochismDeadlight Sanctuary - Thaumaturgical Rites of the DamnedMessial - Ellipses I: Anthroplanetary ExpansionXythlia - Immortality Through Quantum SuicideIfernach - The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid WizardCosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour WithersExhumed / Gruesome - Rot Your Brain / A Mind DecayedFluids - Ignorance ExaltedGramarye - NecroprophecyKombat - New Dimensions of PainGraf Orlock - Violent Ultimatum at the Local Dojo / Bleak News Report in the Office BreakroomFormless Oedon - Deathless LuminosityDisembowel - Echoes of TerrorCoagulate - The Art of Cryptosis
(38/100)
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 3 December 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
Obscurae - To Walk the Path of Sorrows
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Thursday, 3 December 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
Boris with Merzbow - 2R0I2P0
(12/100)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
Haven't heard that yet, But Boris - No is easily the best thing they have done since pink.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 4 December 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
I think these count under "heavy rock"?
Deep Purple - Whoosh!Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
2/100
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 4 December 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
I listened to proper extreme metal too but I think all my faves have been nominated.
Dan Weiss - Natural Selection
3/100
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Friday, 4 December 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
All fine by me.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 December 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
yeah we've never been purists or troo kvltists in the poll. Its not an extreme metal poll only and never has been.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
70s metal bands might not seem heavy now, but they are still metal bands by definition.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
so nominate away please!
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 4 December 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
381 albums nominated so far
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 5 December 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
That's pretty good, and we've still got a month to go. I'm gonna wait a bit longer before posting my next batch.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
Cianide - UnhumanizedCryptae - Nightmare TraversalDead Neanderthals - Blood RiteEntry - DetrimentExsul - s/tEye Flys - Tub Of LardFasad - The EndFistula - The Process of Opting OutGeld - Beyond the FloorGnaw - Barking OrdersGrief Eater - s/tLeprophiliac - NecrosisLiktal - Morgondagens ÖdeLiving Gate - Death LustMarthe - Sisters of DarknessMisantropic - CatharsisObscene - The Inhabitable DarkOrmskirk - s/tOvO - Miasma偏執症者 (Paranoid) - Out Raising HellParasit - Samhällets PariaPerdition Temple - Sacraments Of DescensionTemple Of Void - The World That WasVenomous Concept - Politics Versus the ErectionVile Command - Obscene ConjurationsYovel - Forthcoming Humanity
(62/100)
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Saturday, 5 December 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
I had no idea Cianide had done another one. spinning now
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
cianide kills!! yeah it's good. a well worth addition to their canon
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Saturday, 5 December 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Clairvoyance - DemoIngested – Where Only Gods May TreadLik – Misanthropic BreedMaul – Monarchy of MoldOxalate – Infatuating SicknessResin Tomb – EP 2020Sadness – Alluring the Distant EyeSeptage – Septic DecadenceShards of Humanity – Cold LogicSiege Column – Darkside LegionsSkeletal Remains – The Entombment of ChaosSkelethal – Unveiling the ThresholdStillbirth – Revive the ThroneTemple Nightside – Pillars of DamnationUmbra Vitae – Shadow of a LifeUnleash the Archers - AbyssWitches Hammer – Damnation is My SalvationWormhole – The Weakest Among Us
(54/100)
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 6 December 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Good call on the Siege Column in particular.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 6 December 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
Cosmovore - Into the NecrosphereEdenic Past - Red AmarcordEncenathrakh - Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake Engulfed - Vengeance of the FallenFleshrot - Demo 2020Houkago Grind Time - Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)Molested Divinity - Unearting the Void
(61/100)
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 6 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Does the new Pharaoh Overlord qualify? It's great but it'd be a stretch
― imago, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
If you need to ask…
More seriously, their other releases would qualify so perhaps this one does by association because we're just that naïvely magnanimous.
Deep down, though, you know it's true (that it's not a metal and/or heavy rock record).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
We give a free pass to Ulver every year!
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
I don't personally approve of that either but I am here to serve the fine people of ILM.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
At least the PO has rough vocals, Ulver are just Depeche Mode Unit II now
― imago, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
PO have always been allowed
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
Nominate away, let God sort them out.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
A couple more days left to nominate
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 5 February 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Some more noms:
Growth - The Smothering Arms of Mercy Dopelord - Sign of the Devil Rotting Kingdom - A Deeper Shade of Sorrow Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook) Messiah - Fracmont Valgrind - CondemnationProscription - Conduit Mercyless - The Mother of All Plagues The Spirit - Cosmic Terror Bear Mace - Charred Field of Slaughter Hydra - From Light to the Abyss Häxanu - Snare of All Salvation Ad Vitam Infernal - Infernal Comedy Arsebreed - ButohDiabolic - Mausoleum of the Unholy GhostJupiterian - Protosapien Induced - Coproporeal The Spirit Cabinet - Bloodlines Oldowan Gash - Hubris Unchained
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 6 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
I'll add 'em in a bit.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 February 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
Can we add, please:
Glorious Depravity - Ageless Violence
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 7 February 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
Saigan Terror - Anatomy Of SaiganCro-Mags In The BeginningMindforce - Swingin Swords Choppin LordsThree Knee Deep - Three Knee DeepCCR Headcleaner - Street RiffsTurnstile x Mall Grab - Share A ViewHum - InletExpander - Neuropunk BoostergangFu Manchu - Fu30 Pt 1Nudie Mag - Our MilkOmerta - Hyperviolence
― billstevejim, Sunday, 7 February 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
sorry it'sCro-Mags - In The Beginning
I don't think I heard any noteworthy melodic doom or stoner LPs in 2020.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 7 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
last hours one assumes for nominating. Hoping to get voting started monday
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 February 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 7 February 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
Fab album
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 February 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
Noms will close in 55 mins
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 February 2021 23:05 (three years ago) link
xp Yeah this is what I need thx
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 February 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link